Limbaugh: Obama lie worse than Nixon

Rush Limbaugh on Friday said President Richard Nixon “resigned over a lie” nowhere near as big or damaging as President Barack Obama’s “lie about keeping your insurance,” which he called perhaps “the biggest lie ever told by a sitting president.”

Limbaugh told his listeners that Americans “are losing coverage by political design.” And Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal was nothing compared to what’s happened under this administration, the conservative radio host said.

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“It’s a purposeful, deceitful, fraudulent law,” he said, according to a transcript. “I think Obama’s lie about keeping your insurance may be the biggest lie ever told by a sitting president. This is not an error. It was not a mistake. This was a calculated, purposeful lie — and the mainstream media carried his water on this until just last week. And now? Now they’re claiming that they knew it was a lie all along! Isn’t it funny how they never told us, though? But now they say, ‘We kinda knew this.’”

And, Limbaugh said, “the White House knew out there that 93 million Americans were gonna lose their policy.”

“Richard Nixon resigned over a lie nowhere near this big,” he said. “And you know the hell of it is that Obama doesn’t think he lied. I don’t think Obama, in his mind, is capable of lying. Whatever is necessary to say or do to advance the agenda is what is morally correct. Doesn’t matter. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t think he lied.”

But the Obama administration knew about the coverage cancellations and kept it secret “with the intention of deceiving the American people for the express purposes of electing Barack Obama in 2008 and reelecting him in 2012,” he told his listeners.

“Folks, Richard Nixon resigned over a lie that was much less damaging in scope than this one,” Limbaugh said.

And the conservative radio host isn’t the only media figure who has brought up Nixon in connection with Obamacare this week. On Wednesday, CNN’s Newt Gingrich tweeted that Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ “dishonesty in testimony this morning exceeds anything president Nixon was accused of. The Obama team cant tell truth and survive.” The former House Speaker later told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that “exceeds may have been too strong. I’ll modify it: equals anything.”